"You never move a corner to safety until you have to," San Francisco 49ers General Manager Scot McLoughan said. "Make him prove he can't play corner first."
In that case, the Saints might have a plethora of free safety candidates on the roster. --Jeff Duncan, Times-PicDuncan's little cheap shot, after writing about moving Usama Young to safety. As he said, "moving Young likely would be a last resort, a Plan C in case Plan A (free agency) and Plan B (the draft) fail. "
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Great cheap shot
as cheap shots go. It’s funny because it’s true.
Can’t waste an opportunity to disagree vehemently with this, though:
If Jenkins doesn’t project as a safety, the Saints almost certainly will go in another direction if they stay at No. 14 because no other safety is graded as a first-round talent.
NFL scouts and executives—even the great ones—have demonstrated over and over their total inability to figure out what players are worth. The first round, every year, is composed of an overwhelming majority of players who weren’t really first-round talent. And the NFL is peopled with superstars who were taken outside of the first round.
I have no objection to picking Jenkins if we can get him—for cornerback or safety. But if it’s our safety play that’s keeping us out of the playoffs, why waste another season cobbling together a secondary and hoping for something to break our way in 2010, instead of trying to fix the situation now? If the Saints coaching staff is truly convinced that Louis Delmas—second-round grade and all—is better than Darren Sharper, then get Delmas. (Or Chung, or Johnson, etc. etc.)
Oh when the Saints...Start kicking ass...You don't want to be in that number...
by MtnExile on Feb 23, 2009 11:11 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Back to “best player available”.
I say get Jenkins AND Sharper.
And I do like that Chung kid.
It ain't no good
if there's too much wood.
by stujo4 on Feb 23, 2009 11:18 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
HA!
I saw that one too about an hour ago, and nearly spit my drink onto my computer screen!
Cheap, but freaking hilarious!
Thanks Deuce!
by Hollywoo! on Feb 23, 2009 11:17 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
yeah, I just pulled and highlighted that quote from Saintsational's post of the same article in the main feed (before I saw it done here)
Do you think Duncan’ll catch any guff from the secondary guys because of writing that? Or do none of them even have a leg to stand on in this situation to even try acting offended by this truth-telling?
The Detroit Lions are on the clock!
by HansDat on Feb 23, 2009 4:15 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
well that's interesting
That’s one of my things, that you can’t criticize the players or coaches because then they’ll shun you. I missed that. Duncan’s kinda out on a limb here. Maybe he’s just being like a teenager, testing to see how much he can get away with.
It ain't no good
if there's too much wood.
by stujo4 on Feb 23, 2009 4:55 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Reporters have thick skins
They can’t afford to care what the people they cover think of them. And they truly believe they’re indispensable to a liberal democracy, so people have to cooperate with them or we’ll devolve into fascism.
Besides, he left himself an out: he wrote “might have a plethora…” And he didn’t name names.
Oh when the Saints...Start kicking ass...You don't want to be in that number...
by MtnExile on Feb 23, 2009 5:12 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I agree that it should be as you describe, M-E, in the media
so I would hope that it wouldn’t matter to the reporter.
Maybe the DBs will just tease each other about it in the locker room. “Hey, JD!! Duncan wrote some smack about you. Whatchoo gonna do about it?”
You make a good final point, too.
The Detroit Lions are on the clock!
by HansDat on Feb 23, 2009 5:55 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
“Good afternoon, New Orleans Saints…”
“Hello, Jeff Duncan calling for Coach Payton.”
“Um….. He’s not in, can I take a message?”
“Yeah, just have him call Jeff.”
“Right. Ha ha! Oh sorry. Yes sir, I will.”
It ain't no good
if there's too much wood.
by stujo4 on Feb 23, 2009 8:21 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
"Hi, is this Jeff Duncan of the T-P?"
“Speaking.”
“This is Sean Payton’s admin asst. returning your call. He said he’d be glad to let you have a one-on-one interview next week.”
“Great! Where should I meet him?”
“He says you can meet him at his house.”
“I don’t know where he lives.”
“Oh, it’ll be very easy to find, you just go down my street, and then UP YOURS!”
The Detroit Lions are on the clock!
by HansDat on Feb 24, 2009 4:54 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
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